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“The fact is that a "minor exorcism" takes place in every Baptism and Confirmation ceremony when we renounce Satan and all his works and empty promises. This prayer service will be along those lines. I'm not saying that anyone involved in the redefinition of marriage is possessed by the devil, which, if that were the case, would require the remedy of a "Major Exorcism," but all of us are certainly subject to the devil's evil influences and in need of protection and deliverance from evil.”

“It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.”

People Feels Use Given Cases Subjects Talent Draws Arrogance Humbling Portraiture God Given Talents

Author:LeRoy Neiman

“And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a city or a nation, and rule it according to his or their private interest; which, because the laws in such cases are made according to the interest of a man, or of some few families, may be said to be the empire of men, and not of laws.”

Men May Art Made Said Government Law Nations Interest Cities Cases Modern Subjects Empires Prudence

Book:Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'

Source: Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'

“This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.”

Littles Cases Tree Subjects Talent Barking Up The Wrong Tree

Author:David Salle

“Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.”

Way Chance Cases Subjects One Way Avert Predestined

Author:Quintus Tullius Cicero

“To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded.”

May Real Values Cases Virtue Subjects Gold Breaths Constant Atmosphere Currency Finest Obscure Exposure Slander Brightness Real Value

Book:L.P.

Source: L.P.

“The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject.”

Important Order Cases Special Subjects Eternal Linear Identification Generalization

Book:Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

“Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words , and in complicated cases can take place in no other way: those who have not a thorough insight into both the signification and purpose of words, will be under chances, amounting almost to certainty, of reasoning or inferring incorrectly.”

Way Mean Purpose Chance Cases Subjects Logic Insight Complicated Certainty Operations Reasoning Principal Thorough Inference

Book:A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive: Mill's Works

Source: A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive: Mill's Works

“It is natural to men to judge of things less known, by some similitude they observe, or think they observe, between them and things more familiar or better known. In many cases, we have no better way of judging. And, where the things compared have really a great similitude in their nature, when there is reason to think that they are subject to the same laws, there may be a considerable degree of probability in conclusions drawn from analogy.”

Thinking Men Way May Reason Law Natural Known Cases Subjects Judging Degrees Familiar Conclusion Probability Better Ways Analogies

Book:Philosophical works

Source: Philosophical works

“There are many cases of these algebras which may obviously be combined into natural classes, but the consideration of this portion of the subject will be reserved to subsequent researches.”

May Natural Class Cases Subjects Research Consideration Portions Reserved Algebra

Author:Benjamin Peirce

“The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.”

Mean Powerful Cases Subjects Kings Authority Most Powerful Parliament Presentation Coke Precedent

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

“When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.”

Ifs Whole Shows Courses Sides Views Cases Subjects Judgment Argument Satisfied Mistaken Acknowledgment

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Time was when medicine could do very little for critically ill or dying patients. Now it can do too much. Where to draw the line is the subject of a broad, heated debate throughout the country, a debate that becomes louder with each new medical miracle or impossible case.”

Littles Country Care Can Do Lines Cases Too Much Impossible Subjects Dying Draws Miracle Medicine Patient Ill Illness Medical Debate Health Care Broads

Author:Lisa Belkin

“There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.”

“Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live in an age that is very permissive, both legally and socially, on a wide range of subjects from Karl Marx to kinky sex. This has not always been the case. Things that even children freely see and read and hear today -- writings, pictures, words -- would have been banned as just plain obscene, even for adults, as recently as the middle of the twentieth century.”

Writing Children Has Beens Ideas Moments Age Today Sex Cases Middle Subjects Century Speech Adults Wide Range Contracts Freedom Of Speech Scope Twentieth Century Banned Obscene Kinky

Author:Lawrence M. Friedman

“Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their own case they are not ashamed of practicing towards others; they demand just rule for themselves, but where other men are concerned they care nothing about it. Such behavior is irrational; unless the one party is, and the other is not, born to serve, in which case men have a right to command, not indeed all their fellows, but only those who are intended to be subjects; just as we ought not to hunt mankind, whether for food or sacrifice . .”

Thinking Men Art Government Care Born Party Cases Sacrifice Subjects Mankind Human Nature Ought Demand Behavior Concerned Fellows Command Ashamed Irrational Unjust Hunts Statesmanship Command Not

Author:Aristotle

“I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they will question why a supposedly 'legitimate' state such as Israel has had to conduct decades of war against a subject refugee population without ever achieving its goals.”

Thinking Giving Wells War States Reality Causes Goal Cases Achieve Subjects Roots Historical Population Careful Israel Decades Refugee Root Cause

Author:Ismail Haniyeh

“One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" was a political intervention, primarily influenced by the Women's Liberation Movement and, in my specific case, a Women's Liberation study group, in which we read Freud and realised the usefulness of psychoanalytic theory for a feminist project.”

“I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.”

People Thinking Cases Study Meditation Subjects Sake Drawing Observation Subservient

Author:Peter Wright

“Puerto Ricans are Americans. We've been American citizens since 1917. We fought the same battles, made the same sacrifices. We've lost our land in the same way that Native Americans lost their land, and we've been the subject of discrimination and racism in the same way that African Americans have. We've suffered the full spectrum of oppression, and yet we've been off the map 4,000 miles away so we haven't even been able to argue our case.”

“When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, "and I don't want to read that in your magazine!" In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.”

Ifs Want Writing Said Stories Use Remember Political Waiting Interesting Cases Subjects Materials Add Magazines Gossip Collecting Columns Something Interesting

Author:Simon Hoggart

“Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?”

Use Certain Literature Liberty Cases Subjects Painting Photography Capable Aspect Profit Painter Domain Liberating Anecdotes

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject.”

Important Speak Cases Subjects Masters Former Relate Constituents

Book:The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations